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Kerry Walters is William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, PA, USA, where he also co-founded the Peace and Justice Studies program. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...The Christian argument for vegetarianism is simple: since animals belong to God, have value to God, and live for God, then their needless destruction is sinful.
The first great vow: I renounce all killing of living beings...

Hansjörg Küster

...Plants possess a wealth of different chemical ingredients, ranging from substances with simple structures to very complicated ones, such as terpene or benzoic derivatives. Some are poisonous, others are important raw materials...

Jeff Miller, Colorado State University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Jonathan Deutsch is professor and program director in the Department of Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts, and Food Science at Goodwin College, Drexel University, USA, Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...The most commonplace object has the capacity to symbolize the deepest human anxieties and aspirations.Goods that minister to physical needs—food and drink—are no less carriers of meaning than ballet and poetry.Some of the richest sources...

David Brown

Eating and Believing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology

A Continuum, 2008

Book chapter

...In our contemporary context, discussion of vegetarianism is overwhelmingly conducted in terms of the intrinsic rights of animals and the potential harm done to them by modern methods of food production.
For a recent powerful...

Peter R. Cheeke

...Rabbit production is significant in several countries, especially France, Italy,Malta, and Spain, where there is a long tradition of consuming rabbit meat. In the past, great numbers of rabbits were raised by subsistence farmers, who fed...

Stanley J. Olsen

...The process of capture, taming, and eventual
domestication of most animals is a difficult and lengthy process, often consisting of a trial-and-error approach. One notable exception was the domestication of the North American wild...

Daniel W. Gade

...Of the two species of domesticated anatines, the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is larger, less vocal, and characterized by a fleshy protuberance on the head of the male. It is a duck of tropical American origin, whose wild ancestors...